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Five rounds of Muay Thai are a different beast entirely. Phetjeeja ‘The Queen’ Lukjaoporongtom found that out the hard way at The Inner Circle 19 at Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.<\/p>\n
She pushed Allycia Hellen Rodrigues to the limit in stretches, landing sharp right hands in the second and fourth rounds and making the Brazilian work through every minute of a gruelling five-round atomweight Muay Thai world title war.<\/p>\n
But as the rounds stacked up, a separate battle was being fought internally<\/a>.<\/p>\n Phetjeeja had been competing regularly in kickboxing, but the specific demands of a traditional five-round Muay Thai fight had not been part of her reality for years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/template><\/p>\n Get the latest updates on One Championship Rankings<\/a> at Sportskeeda and more<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Slower pace, more clinch, different rhythm, different energy system. Her body simply hadn’t been primed for it.<\/p>\n After coming up short via a narrow split decision<\/a>, the atomweight kickboxing world champion told Muay Thai Around The World:<\/p>\n “I realized tonight that my conditioning for a full five-round traditional Muay Thai fight wasn’t where it needed to be. This was my first time going the full five rounds in Muay Thai in a very long time… For Kickboxing, it’s been about a year or a year and a half. But for traditional five-round Muay Thai? It’s been several years. A really long time. So we can look at this fight as a way to shake off the rust.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Phetjeeja knew the clinch is Allycia Hellen Rodrigues’ biggest strength.<\/p>\n However, the Thai superstar didn’t expect to be outmuscled<\/a> by the Brazilian mom-champ in close quarters.<\/p>\n ‘The Queen’ said in the same interview:<\/p>\n “If we’re talking about pure strength, honestly, she isn’t that much stronger than me. I felt I could hold my own against her inside. But when it came to the force of impact during collisions, I lacked that.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Inner Circle replay is available for Inner Circle Superfan Club members at live.onefc.com<\/a><\/p>\nPhetjeeja admits she was taken aback by Allycia Hellen Rodrigues’ physicality<\/h2>\n